I plan to build a beta for the next release, which will probably be 5.4.

I don't know about the kernels though, might leave them alone. The thing is, we have some drivers, for example nVidia, compiled for those kernels, and if I upgrade the kernels then those PETs will also require upgrading.

If there is no urgent need to upgrade the kernels, I will leave them alone.

So, the next Wary/Racy will have all the new features of Woof, plus various application upgrades.

I have started to look at getting Wary and Racy organised for the next release.

I was unable to compile SeaMonkey 2.12.1. It required upgrading of libvpx (from 0.9.7 to 1.1.0) and sqlite (from 3.7.10 to 3.7.14), however it seems that the version of gcc in Wary is too old. I did some research on this, fiddled around for sometime, but was unable to compile SM.

So, I used the official binary from the SM website, made it into a PET. This requires 'dbus-glib', so I enabled that (and 'dbus') in the Wary (and Racy) package-list.
Note, it does not use the system libvpx and sqlite, has it's own inbuilt. Ditto for cairo.

As this new PET includes the IRC-chat client module, I added a menu entry under the 'Internet' category.

Sigh... I don't like to see this. Just looking at the SM PETs, version 1.1.19 is 10.1MB, 2.0.11 is 11.2MB, and 2.12.1 is 21.5MB!

I have run into a problem with the latest builds of Wary and Racy. ROX-Filer refuses to display thumbnails. It outputs an error message that I cannot understand.

I have been trying to figure out what is wrong, no success.

So, I am now going through a very painfully slow process of elimination. I have checked out the version of Woof used to build Wary/Racy 5.3 -- commit 9d81d0919b, April 3, 2012 -- build Racy, test ROX, then update Woof by say one month, build Racy and test ROX, etc.

...this took me awhile to get right. The '--disable-libusb' is required so that CUPS will use the old "usblp kernel module" method -- otherwise, the 'usblp' module has to be blacklisted. Besides, I'm not sure if the CUPS developers have got the new "libusb" method fully sorted out.